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18 July 2023

What data can smart gadgets collect?

The material is published in Komsomolskaya Pravda

Do you want American spies to know your main secrets? So that they find out what you gossip with colleagues about, how much time you kill in the smoking room and in what expressions do you hide the boss in instant messengers? No? Then no iPhones in the workplace! This rule applies to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Rostec - since July 17, these departments have banned the use of Apple equipment for work purposes. The Ministry of Energy is also preparing such an order.

What is it - excessive reinsurance or the fight against the real danger of information leakage? Let's figure it out.

Dozens of other gadgets collect information about us. For example, smart watches and fitness trackers know not only our heart rate and the number of steps taken. Since they are connected to the phone, they are very likely to be able to reproduce the pin code from your banking application and other passwords.

"The data that the manufacturer officially collects is usually stored fairly securely. There are relatively few high-profile leaks from manufacturers. This is rather a pain for small companies, while large ones protect the information they collect quite reliably. Let me clarify that we are not talking about personal data, but about information collected by the gadgets themselves "

Andrey Vratsky

CEO of eXpress enterprise communications and mobility platform

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